Re: [ats-lang-users] The future

[Hongwei Xi <hw...@cs...>]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, barefoot joe wrote:

>>and jon harrop finds another forum to troll in, promoting OCaml and
>>his company. programming reddit, comp.lang.lisp, other usenet groups,
>>and slashdot are not enough for him. apparently he doesnt know that
>>ATS is licensed under GPL3 and any code that uses the standard library
>>must be GPL3, so what is the point of making it easy for proprietary
>>libraries? it will be pretty hard selling libraries when anyone is
>>allowed to redistribute the source code.
>>
>>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&hs=AFf&q=jon+harrop+troll
>>
>>if your interested in systems programming, building an exokernel in
>>ATS may be a good idea.

Indeed, a very interesting idea! But we probably need to build a 
traditional kernel in ATS first so as to learn the ropes. Hopefully,
this shouldn't take too long.

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